A state in America is looking to test a new method of execution.
An American state is looking to use a new execution method called nitrogen asphyxiation for the first time in the world.
The state of “Alabama” in the United States has announced to a federal judge in this country that this state will soon be ready to use a new and never-before-tried announcement method called “nitrogen suffocation” to carry out executions.
This news was revealed during a court hearing in the United States on the request of Alan Miller, a prisoner sentenced to death, to cancel the execution of his sentence on September 22 by lethal injection. Miller told the court that prison officials had lost documents he submitted in 2018 to request that he be executed by nitrogen asphyxiation. Although this method of execution is allowed in the state of Alabama, it has never been used in practice.
According to the Associated Press news agency, James Hoots, the deputy attorney general of the state of Alabama, said that the use of this method for execution in this state could be possible by next week.
The method of hypoxia or “reduction of oxygen” with nitrogen is a way in which the death of a condemned person is caused by only breathing nitrogen gas and the subsequent fatal lack of oxygen in his body.
No state in the United States has yet used hypoxic execution with nitrogen. In 2018, Alabama became the third state, after Oklahoma and Mississippi, to allow executions by the untested method of using nitrogen gas. However, the main method of execution in this state is lethal injection.
The excuse of these American states for allowing this method of execution was the difficulty of obtaining lethal injection materials and constant complaints about the inhumanity of the method of execution by lethal injection. Proponents of nitrogen asphyxiation claim that it is simpler and more “humane”.
Critics of this untested method of execution have likened it to lethal human experimentation.
